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BlackHawk

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So today I wanted to polish my car to get it ready for 22ple. Went over the car with a white pad and TSR3.0. During the process everything was looking great. Once I'm done, I turn off the lights and check with a flashlight. And I see almost like holograms nearly all over the car! I'm using a PC for crying out loud. I tried EVERY possible product and pad combo to try and fix it. Nothing works. Super light polishing does not work. Even orange pad won't do good. I know is not my microfibers scratching it since they are high quality and washed last night. I've never been so disappointed before. I feel like total sh&! knowing I've waisted 5 hours making my paint look worse than before. I'm probably just going to put the 22ple on later today either way. I'm absolutely done with it. Just kinda felt like venting out over here :/ never been more pissed at myself before like this
 
Do you think you're inducing the holograms or were they there before you began?
 
You polished a whole car with a PC in 5 hours with TSR? I don't think your breaking the polish down all the way (working it long enough). What are you working on ???

How fast are you moving the polisher? With a PC I'm going about 1.5-2" a second doing 5-6 section passes.
 
swanicyouth said:
You polished a whole car with a PC in 5 hours with TSR? I don't think your breaking the polish down all the way (working it long enough). What are you working on ???

How fast are you moving the polisher? With a PC I'm going about 1.5-2" a second doing 5-6 section passes.
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My car is really tiny :/ I do exactly as you just said, and it still is there. My car is a 2006 eclipse gt with the infamous Kalapana Black paint...
 
BlackHawk said:
So today I wanted to polish my car to get it ready for 22ple. Went over the car with a white pad and TSR3.0. During the process everything was looking great. Once I'm done, I turn off the lights and check with a flashlight. And I see almost like holograms nearly all over the car! I'm using a PC for crying out loud. I tried EVERY possible product and pad combo to try and fix it. Nothing works. Super light polishing does not work. Even orange pad won't do good. I know is not my microfibers scratching it since they are high quality and washed last night. I've never been so disappointed before. I feel like total sh&! knowing I've waisted 5 hours making my paint look worse than before. I'm probably just going to put the 22ple on later today either way. I'm absolutely done with it. Just kinda felt like venting out over here :/ never been more pissed at myself before like this
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It sounds like you didn't break down the polish. Did you finish with the Finishing Glaze?
 
swanicyouth said:
You polished a whole car with a PC in 5 hours with TSR? I don't think your breaking the polish down all the way (working it long enough). What are you working on ???

How fast are you moving the polisher? With a PC I'm going about 1.5-2" a second doing 5-6 section passes.
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This is where I was going but I wanted to determine if they were there before he started. I'm thinking they were there but he might not be spending enough time and the finish also might be very hard.
 
Rsurfer said:
It sounds like you didn't break down the polish. Did you finish with the Finishing Glaze?
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I tried everything from finishing glaze to even Blacklight. Nothing gets rid of the things. I just don't get it :(
 
BobbyG said:
This is where I was going but I wanted to determine if they were there before he started. I'm thinking they were there but he might not be spending enough time and the finish also might be very hard.
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They weren't there before, that's why im so confused
 
Is that paint soft ? Maybe it was to aggressive
 
I would take a test section (18"X18") which you should have done in the beginning and try some different combo's. As BobbyG said, it may have been there before you started. Do you have a more aggressive compound than TSR?
 
Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover is a fairly aggressive product and if you were actually sliding the pad across the paint you may have accidentally introduced them. I'm just trying to see how you may have done this.

What products and pads do you have?
What machine speed are you using?
 
BobbyG said:
Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover is a fairly aggressive product and if you were actually sliding the pad across the paint you may have accidentally introduced them. I'm just trying to see how you may have done this.

What products and pads do you have?
What machine speed are you using?
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To add: What kind of downward pressure?
Arm speed?
 
Polishing paint is NOT easy. Could be a ton of reasons why you're not getting desired results. Hang in there.
 
Hoytman said:
You read it BobbyG, you just missed it.
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Read what Bill?

I saw he was using a Porter Cable polisher but I'd like a little more information on the speed setting....

I see he has at least Orange and White pads but I'd like to know if he more options....
 
BobbyG said:
What machine speed are you using?
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It appears that I'm the one who missed it...didn't even see the word, "speed" in your post, and thus the reason for my comments. I thought you just glanced over it...and I'm the one scanning.
 
Hoytman said:
It appears that I'm the one who missed it...didn't even see the word, "speed" in your post, and thus the reason for my comments. I thought you just glanced over it...and I'm the one scanning.
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HA, not to worry Bill, I'm the one that usually scans...it's an age thing with me!! :laughing:
 
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